Assisted Living in Topeka, KS

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Facts about Topeka

Topeka is also known as: Shawnee County / Topeka city.

And some of the notable people born here have been: Annette Bening (actor and voice actor), Gregg Binkley (actor), Katrina Leskanich (singer and actor), Kliph Scurlock (musician and drummer), and Shirley Phelps-Roper (lawyer and spokesperson).

And featured attractions of Topeka: Lake Sherwood, Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka Zoo, Landon Arena, and Memorial Building.

Topeka is represented by City Manager Larry E. Wolgastand Mayor Jim Colson.

Topeka is the capital city of the State of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 127,473. The Topeka Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Shawnee, Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, and Wabaunsee counties, had a population of 233,870 in the 2010 census.The name Topeka is a Kansa-Osage sentence that means "Place where we dug potatoes" or "a good place to dig potatoes". As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose the name in 1855 because it "was novel, of Indian origin and euphonious of sound." The mixed-blood Kansa Native American, Joseph James, called Jojim, is credited with suggesting the name of Topeka. The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka was chartered as a city.The city is well known for the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson and declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. Three ships of the U.S. Navy have been named USS Topeka after the city.

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